Nurit Bird-David
Nurit Bird-David | |
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Born | 29 September 1951 |
Academic background | |
making and intimacy, micro-scale societies, relational epistomology | |
Website | https://sites.google.com/soc.haifa.ac.il/bird-david/ |
Nurit Bird-David (Hebrew: בירד-דוד נורית; born 29 September 1951) is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel.[1][2] She is best known for her study of the Nayaka hunter-gatherers in South India,[3] upon which she based much of her writings on animism, relational epistemology, and indigenous small-scale communities, and which later inspired additional fieldwork and insights on home-making in contemporary industrial societies, and the theoretical concept of scale in anthropology and other social sciences.
Biography
Bird-David studied
Bird-David is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Council of Anthropological Associations.[5]
Much of her work is based on her early ethnographic fieldwork on the Nayaka. Bird-David began working with them in 1978, a decade before governmental and nongovernmental agents reached them, and has since continued to study their changing lifeways for four decades.[6]
Bird-David is most well-known for her work on
In 2018 Bird-David received the award of life achievement by the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research (ISHGR).
Bird-David's experience with hunter-gatherers led her to consider other cases of indigenous small-scale societies, particularly the significance of the concept of scale in anthropological theory. Ethnographically describing the distinctive phenomenological and cultural experiences of life in minuscule hunter-gatherer societies, she argues that Anthropology has long neglected group size, horizons of concerns, and scalability in describing and explaining such small-scale worlds and comparing them to larger-scale societies (especially global society and nation-states).[17][6][18]
Bird-David's interest in small-scale communities, scale, and perceptions of the environment, has led her to later study cultures of
References
- ^ "Website of the Department of Anthropology at Haifa University".
- ^ "Nurit Bird-David | University of Haifa - Academia.edu". haifa.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ a b c "About Nurit Bird-David, from the International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS) website".
- ^ "Nurit Bird-David | Radical Anthropology Group". radicalanthropologygroup.org. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ "International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research » Home". ishgr.org. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ a b Bird-David, Nurit (2017). Us, Relatives: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- doi:10.1086/200061.
- doi:10.1086/203825.
- doi:10.1086/204029.
- ^ Bird-David, Nurit (2005). "The property of sharing: Western analytical notions, Nayaka contexts". In Widlok, T. and T. Wolde (ed.). Property and Equality. Vol 1 Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism. Oxford: Bergham. pp. 201–216.
- ^ Bird-David, Nurit (2015). "Modern biases, hunter-gatherers' children: A relational perspective". In Güner, Coşkunsu (ed.). The Archaeological Study of Childhood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma. SUNNY press, Albany, US.
- ^ Ingold, Tim (2002). The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. Routledge. p. 47.
- ^ Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (2004). "Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies". Common Knowledge. 1 (3): 463–484.
- ^ Descola, Philippe. Beyond nature and culture. University of Chicago Press. p. 250.
- ^ Harvey, Graham (2005). Animism: Respecting the living world. Wakefield Press.
- ^ Harvey, Graham (2019). "Animism and ecology: Participating in the world community". The Ecological Citizen. 3: 79–84.
- doi:10.1086/691051.
- ^ Bird-David, Nurit. 2018. Size matters! The scalability of modern hunter-gatherer animism. Quaternary International 464: 305-314.